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An Assassination in Silver Lake.
Silver Lake, land of the hipster, home of gentrification. Sure. Look at the Mercedes SLK in our Google maps photo.
Still, people forget that it's also a ba...
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You thought the old "magic bus" was stuck in the 1960s. But a group of pro-medical-marijuana activists is getting on board and heading to Sacramento this week.
Best smelling vehicle ever.
This parti...
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L.A. journalist Chuck Philips was kicked out of court yesterday as he covered the New York trial of alleged drug dealer and longtime rap industry manager James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond.
Rosemond was...
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* Update, May 16, 10:30 a.m.: Pacquiao's original interviewer, Granville Ampong, is now saying that he himself quoted Leviticus 20:13 in his article -- so the words "put to death" never came out of Pa...
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Updated at the bottom: Maybe it was all just a bad dream. The first guy has withdrawn his suit. First posted at 1:54 p.m. Monday, May 7.
When a Los Angeles man wrote a book that claimed John Travolt...
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So cops can now fly unmanned aircraft known as drones, which could be used to peek into your backyard and maybe even into your window at night.
So will the LAPD, a pioneer in the use of helicopters f...
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Usually carjackers commit crimes of the moment by grabbing a car to get away from a just-committed felony or using a vehicle for a one-night joyride.
But cops today announced they're looking for perh...
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Gov. Jerry Brown says there are $8 billion worth of cuts coming to state programs this summer, and that's not even enough to fill the $16 billion sinkhole California faces July 1.
One enterprising le...
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Is it the bad kids who turn to drugs, or is it the drugs that turn teens badr
A recent study suggests that the high schoolers who do drugs are more susceptible to them.
The research, billed as the ...
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Porn gets glamorized, sensationalized and sanitized by the mainstream, but its sometimes dark reality is hard even for some of its own insiders to admit.
A new documentary seeks to shed light on what...
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For those who oppose building a stadium downtown because, they argue, we just can't handle the traffic, this weekend could be the ultimate test:
It's being called the perfect storm of sports events: ...
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The parking nazis have come to Santa Monica: No free minutes for you!
New sensors that begin working today will cut meters' paid time down to zero once a space is empty, even if the woman who parked ...
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Updated at the bottom with Brown's slash-and-burn budget. First posted at 6:06 a.m.
Gray Davisr Arnold Schwarzeneggerr Jerry Brown IIr It's deja vu all over again.
Brown took to YouTube over the wee...
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FBI special agent Stephen Ivans went off the reservation, gun in-hand, prompting a massive search for him in the Verdugo Mountains east of Burbank over the weekend.
Authorities fear he's suicidal.
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Judd Weiss comes off on his Facebook page and his blog as a party boy with a camera, a good eye for pretty girls and a wallet that allows him to live the Hollywood life.
But the LAPD over the weekend...
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"A momma lost her son today," University of Idaho football coach Robb Akey said on Mother's Day.
He was referring to returning senior Ken McRoyal, a Carson High School graduate who was gunned down ou...
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Up until this week the biggest wave ever surfed was right here in Southern California, believe it or not.
While SoCal beaches don't exactly comprise a big-wave Mecca, sometimes the spot known as Cort...
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In crime, it's rare when the detective becomes the murderer.
But it happened to Stephanie Lazarus, a beloved LAPD art-crime investigator who, it turned out, murdered the wife of her ex-boyfriend in j...
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Daydreamers used to get in trouble. They were the underachievers. They were the kids who ended up hanging out under the bleachers and smoking stuff that smelled funny. Rightr
Wrong.
New research co-...
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If you've ever felt like cops live by their own rules and laugh at you law-abiding peons, there's perhaps a little truth to the notion. At least -- allegedly -- sometimes.
And you know when an LAPD s...
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Backers of the CASE Act, a needless but popular proposal to fight sex trafficking (because no one ever gets arrested for that in California) declared this week that they have qualified for the Novembe...
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Updated at the bottom: An arrest has been made! First posted at 8:03 a.m.
It's been a bad academic year for creepy crimes at UCLA. Authorities have had to deal with at least three sexual assaults on ...
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With Magic Johnson and Guggenheim Baseball Management taking over the team, it's a new era at Dodger Stadium.
And what better way to celebrate than to buy you some of those recently reduced $10 ticke...
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Maybe Sarah Tressler was listening when we told her to come back to L.A. -- a stripping journalist would fit right in at the alt-lifestyle rag called LA Weekly.
The former LA CityBeat intern was back...
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You thought drug dealers operated on street corners or in Lindsay Lohan's bathroom, but no.
Turns out a Van Nuys store front has been doing business as a "pill mill" where you can walk in with cash a...
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